The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 3.10-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 4f6bb246f69443549fbbd0f2abaf863243cb35e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:52:59 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] SUNRPC: PipeFS MOUNT notification optimization for dying clients Not need to create pipes for dying client. So just skip them. Note: we can safely dereference the client structure, because notification caller is holding sn->pipefs_sb_lock. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c index b4f17117..f0339ae9 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c @@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ static inline int rpc_clnt_skip_event(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, unsigned long event if (((event == RPC_PIPEFS_MOUNT) && clnt->cl_dentry) || ((event == RPC_PIPEFS_UMOUNT) && !clnt->cl_dentry)) return 1; + if ((event == RPC_PIPEFS_MOUNT) && atomic_read(&clnt->cl_count) == 0) + return 1; return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html